In one of the early decisions released Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to dismiss thousands of lawsuits against Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and chemical company who makes the herbicide Roundup, which has been linked to cancer cases in users, ABC News reports.
The Court left a $25 million judgment for Californian Edwin Hardeman, who used Roundup to kill poison oak, overgrown plants and other weeds on his property and who then developed cancer. Hardeman’s lawsuit was viewed as a test case against the conglomerate.
The ruling comes on the heels of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Friday that threw out a 2020 finding by the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, was not linked to cancer cases.